Recipe: Black Magic Cake with Hundred Dollar Frosting (chocolate and coffee)

BLACK MAGIC CAKE

1 3/4 cup unbleached flour, sifted
2 cup sugar
3/4 cup unsweetened cocoa powder
2 tsp. baking soda
1 tsp. baking powder
1 tsp. salt
2 large eggs
1/2 cup vegetable oil
1 cup strong black coffee
1 cup buttermilk
1 tsp. vanilla extract

Sift together flour, sugar, cocoa powder, baking soda, baking powder, and salt in a mixing bowl. Add eggs, oil, coffee, buttermilk and vanilla. Beat with an electric mixer set at medium speed for 3 minutes. Pour batter into greased 13x9x2-inch baking pan.

Bake in preheated 350 degree F oven for 40 minutes or until the cake tests done.

Cool in pan on rack. Frost with Hundred Dollar Frosting. Cut into squares.

HUNDRED DOLLAR FROSTING

1/4 cup butter or regular margarine
3 oz. semisweet chocolate
1 large egg
2 cup confectioner's sugar
1 Tbsp. vanilla extract
1 Tbsp. lemon juice
1 cup walnuts, chopped

Combine butter and semisweet chocolate in a double boiler top. Place over hot water, stirring until melted. Remove and cool well.

Add egg and stir vigorously. Stir in confectioners' sugar, vanilla and lemon juice. Beat until smooth.

Stir in walnuts and frost cake with icing.

From: Kate